Tuesday, January 17, 2017

Who Needs an Inauguration? The Tweets Will Be Our Entertainment

I have a bad habit of skimming right past the @ blue-type information at the beginnings of tweets and reading only the black type, which sometimes causes me unnecessary confusion.  Like this tRump tweet:


So when I read backward to @Ivanka, I assumed it to be Trump's daughter's Twitter account.  Reading backward further, I realized that this particular tweet is a quote of a tweet from somebody whose Twitter "handle" is drgoodpsine.

But that wasn't the end of it.  It was even better than thinking Trump was calling himself a great woman with real character and class.

It turns out that @drgoodspine mistakenly directed his tweet to @Ivanka and not to Trump's daughter's actual Twitter account: @IvankaTrump.  So, as is the case with blue (links) @ attributions, this tweet was automatically sent to every account with the blue @ name.

And, the actual @Ivanka who was mistakenly included replied:



Nicely played, Ivanka.

(She'll be getting more Twitter responses than she ever wanted, poor thing.  They're already hunting her down.)

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